I'm pulling together all the known incidents involving reporters during last night's protests in the US, including arrests, tear gassing, assaults. If you know of any I've missed, please let me know.
Two members of Reuters crew hit with rubber bullets in Minneapolis reuters.com/article/us-min…
.@PLBarghouty and @DGisSERIOUS 'rushed with riot shields' in New York
HuffPo reporter Chris Mathias arrested in New York huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/chris-ma…
ViceNews correspondent Michael Anthony Adams pepper sprayed in Minneapolis
Reporter Sarah Belle Lin shot with nonlethal rounds in Oakland
Cerise Castle shot with rubber bullets in LA
Molly Hennessy-Fiske @mollyhf from the LA Times tear gassed with other journalists and hit with rubber bullets in Minneapolis
Michael George from CBS and his crew fired on with rubber bullets in Minneapolis
CNN commentator Keith Boykin arrested in New York
Channel 9 Australia correspondent @TimArvier9 detained and searched in Minneapolis
KSTP reporter Ryan Raiche and his crew gassed and pepper sprayed in Minneapolis
MSNBC's Ali Velshi tear gassed in Minneapolis
Detroit Free Press reporter JC Reindl pepper sprayed
Simon Moya-Smith pepper sprayed and arrested
Star Tribune reporters Ryan Faircloth and Chao Xiong's car hit with rubber bullets in Minneapolis
The next few are from @HelenKennedy who compiled a list last night. WCCO photographer arrested in Minneapolis
CNN's Omar Jimenez and his crew said to have been hit with tear gas in Minneapolis
Huffpo's Philip Lewis shot in the leg with a rubber bullet in DC
Lexis-Olivier Ray punched in the stomach in LA
The Indy's Andrew Buncombe has his backpack struck in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ballew pepper sprayed in Chicago
CBC Senior Correspondent Susan Ormiston shot with rubber bullets in Minneapolis
Sara Sidery from WDRB news hit with tear gas in Louisville
Kaitlin Rust from Louisville's Wave3News directly shot at
Not an attack by police -- but a Fox News crew were attacked by protesters in DC foxnews.com/us/fox-news-cr…
Linda Tirado, blinded in left eye after being struck by nonlethal round in Minneapolis
A Radio-Canada Info cameraman gassed in Minneapolis
These next four were split off from this main thread, so adding them here:
- Fox News reporters attacked (by protesters not police) foxnews.com/us/fox-news-cr…
- CBC Senior Correspondent Susan Ormiston shot with rubber bullets in Minneapolis
- Fox News reporters attacked (by protesters not police) foxnews.com/us/fox-news-cr…
- CBC Senior Correspondent Susan Ormiston shot with rubber bullets in Minneapolis
- Kaitlin Rust from Louisville's Wave3News directly shot at
- Sara Sidery from WDRB news hit with tear gas in Louisville
- Sara Sidery from WDRB news hit with tear gas in Louisville
Radio-Canada team gets its tires slashed by police
Morgan Chesky of MSNBC almost hit with some kind of explosive device in Minneapolis
Maggie Koerth from FiveThirtyEight has gun pointed at her in Minneapolis
An Al-Jazeera Investigates team threatened by a crowd (not police) in Minneapolis
A team from Germany's DW news shot at and threatened with arrest
This is incident number 31, from across Friday and Saturday nights: a Swedish reporter shot with rubber bullets in Minneapolis
Rubber bullets fired at UCLA student journalist Jintak Han
A photographer and news team from @DenverChannel hit with paintballs
These following are from a list being compiled by @N_Waters89 on his account. I'm adding the ones I've not yet come across.
Number 33 on my list: Journalists from Norway and Sweden attacked with rubber bullets in Minneapolis
Number 33 on my list: Journalists from Norway and Sweden attacked with rubber bullets in Minneapolis
34. A journalist from Minnesota News Now, a YouTube channel, attacked in Minneapolis
35. Officers point a gun at reporter Madeleine Baran in Minneapolis
36. Cameraman wearing press helmet shot in Minneapolis
37. Journalist Matthew Rodier shot in DC
38. Another Minneapolis incident below
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40. Max Nesterak from the Minnesota Reformer shot in the chest with a rubber bullet
41. Andy Mannix from the Star Tribune hit with a projectile in Minneapolis on May 28
42. A reporter has her back window shot out
43. A reported in Denver gets chemical canister kicked at her
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45. Independent journalist Marina Trahan Martinez shot at with rubber bullets and gas canisters in Dallas
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69. Not a violent incident, but one of police ordering journalists to leave the streets
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81. In this one, Des Moines Register reporter @andreamsahouri is detained and goes live from the back of the police truck
This is the third recorded incident I've seen where crowds attack journalists, so I won't number it as a police attack
The fourth incident involving crowds beating journalists
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Incident no. 85 above from a series of photos taken by @Chandanphoto
87. Missed this second incident involving CNN's Omar Jimenez
88. The next crop come via @N_Waters89 who is continuing to put together a similar list. Adding here so they're all in one place for me
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This is the fifth incident in which crowds are responsible for attacking reporters (other four lower in thread)
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This is the sixth incident in which crowds attack journalists. The previous five are higher up in the thread
